Member #557302

Just got this thing, and can’t say I’m too impressed, especially for the price.

The soldering is atrocious. And whatever flux they used definitely needed to be cleaned off (and wasn’t). nasty oxidized mess.

And worst of all, the silkscreened numbers are all in reverse order! Their pin 1 is actually connector pin 30! Made for a good bit of confusion for me, trying to ring out a cable. Could be much worse if someone blindly trusts the label, and ends up letting the magic smoke out of their iPhone because they shoved +V into the wrong place.

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